About Andy Taylor – Art Haus
I built a career telling other people’s stories. Now I tell my own, one canvas at a time.
My work explores a journey most of us know intimately – from anxiety to stillness, from despair to hope. I find that journey in landscape. In the way clouds break and light floods through. In the moment a turbulent sea finds its quiet. In the colour that appears when darkness lifts.
Every painting I make begins in chaos – layers built up, torn back, rebuilt. What remains is something that feels honest and alive.
I want collectors to feel that when they live with my work. Not just to see a painting on a wall, but to feel that shift – that reminder that calm follows storm, always.
My story featured in the Nottingham Post July 2026
Pledge supporter – Mental Health Time for Action Foundation
The Process
I begin with a feeling of a place, not an attempt to represent it – trying to secure how it made me feel, from the heart. I build in layers, working for depth: sometimes impasto, worked with a palette knife; sometimes paler colour washes that link different parts of the painting together and add complexity beneath the surface. Often it’s both, layered over each other, until the painting holds the tension I’m after.
The Studio
I work from a purpose-built studio in Nottingham, where I paint year-round. The space is small but full – canvases stacked, colours everywhere, light from the garden.
Occasionally I open the studio to collectors and guests. If you’d like to visit and see work in progress or pieces not yet listed online, get in touch and I’ll let you know when the next open studio event is planned. Visiting isn’t just seeing where the paintings happen – it’s a way into my personal world, and often the clearest way to understand how I think as well as how I paint.